High School

High school is an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. Other terms such as "secondary school" or "secondary college" are used in different nations or regions (see below:Usage by country).

The phrase "high school" often forms part of the name of the related institution.

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Famous quotes containing the words high and/or school:

    “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums ... who find prison so soul-destroying.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)